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Born in New York City 

Lives and Works in New York City

 

EDUCATION

2014   Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, Maine

2013   MFA in Painting, Hunter College, New York City

2009  BFA in Painting, Hunter College, New York City

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024  Natural Sovereignty, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL

2021   Riding the Wind's Back, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL

2020  Walk The Air, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2019   Picture-Makers, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY 

2018   Somewhere In Between, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

            Daily Navigation, Thierry Goldberg MIAMI, Miami, FL

2017   Homegrown, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY

2016   Meta- Modes, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling, New York, NY

2015   Graphic Mythologies, Russ Berrie Pavilion, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Multiplicity: Collage in Contemporary America, Musueum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX 

2023 Multiplicity: Collage in Contemporary America, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN 

2023  Seeing Stars: Works from the Fischer/Shull Collection, Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, NC

2022  The Vault Show, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tuscon, Arizona

2021   But No Elephants, Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling, New York, NY

2021   Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY

2021   Who Says Who Shows What Counts, The Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL

2021   Lineages: Works from the Collection, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

2020  Black Voices/Black Microcosm, CFHILL Art Space, Stockholm, Sweden

2019   Embody, Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Schenectady NY

2019   Punch LA, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA

           Snow Day, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY

2018   To Dream Avant-Garde, Hammond Harkins Galleries, Columbus, OH

           Punch, Jeffrey Deitch, New York, NY

           Summertime…, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

          Harlem Perspectives, Faction Art Projects, New York, NY 

          Aesthetics of Matter, Volta 2018, New York, NY

2017   Bronx Calling: Fourth AIM Biennial, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY 

          Harlem Postcards Summer 2017, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY 

         Uptown, Wallach Art Gallery, Lenfest Center of the Arts, New York, NY

2015   Intersecting Imaginaries, No Longer Empty Lab, New York, NY

2014   Distrust That Particular Flavor, Bitforms Gallery, New York, NY

2013   Three, Three-Person Show, RFA Gallery, New York, NY

2011   Spirit of Community, Dwyer Cultural Center, New York, NY

2009   Pulse, Taller Boricua at Julio Burgos Cultural Center, New York, NY

2003   Aspects of Urban Life, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY

ART FAIRS

2023. Art Basel- Group Booth

2023 Expo Chicago 2023- Group Booth

2022 Art Basel- Group Booth

2022 Independent Art Fair - Solo Booth

2022 Expo Chicago 2022- Group Booth

2021 Art Basel- Galleries Sector- Group Booth

2021  Art Basel Ovr:Portals - Solo Booth

2019. The Armory Show-Solo Booth

2018  Untitled Miami Beach Group Booth

2018 Expo Chicago 2018 Group Booth

 

PRESS

2024

KAT BARANDY, "INTERVIEW: ARTIST DAVID SHROBE TURNS DISCARDED MATERIALS INTO EMPOWERING PORTRAITS"

DESIGNBOOM, FEBRUARY 23, 2024

HEATHER MOQTADERI,  "DAVID SHROBE: NATURAL SOVEREIGNTY" PAST PRESENT PROJECTS, ISSUE NO.4, FEBRUARY 19, 2024

VASIA RIGOU, "TEXTURED TAKES ON CLASSICAL PORTRAITURE: A REVIEW OF DAVID SHROBE AT MONIQUEMELOCHE"

NEWCITY ART, FEBRUARY 15, 2024

"DAVID. SHROBE: NATURAL SOVEREIGNTY" SURFACEMAG, FEBRUARY 5, 2024

2022 

ANNABEL KEENAN, "AT INDEPENDENT ART FAIR, YOUNG ARTISTS EXPLORE HERITAGE, IDENTITY AND HEALING"
CULTURED MAGAZINE, MAY 7, 2022

MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN, "THE BEST BOOTHS AT INDEPENDENT NEW YORK 2022, FROM PERSONAL ABSTRACTION TO A RESPONSE

TO THE GUSTON CONTROVERSY, ARTNEWS , MAY 6, 2022

2018- 2019

Jovanovic, Rozalia, “Artist David Shrobe Creates His Own World Through Found Objects”, Galerie Magazine, (May 24, 2019) Rose Sharp, Sarah,

“What It Means to Dream Avant-Garde” (November 9, 2018) Shrobe, David. “One Piece: Celestial Pose” BOMB (October 23, 2018) Collymore,

Nan. “Decoding Black Materiality.” C& (October 12, 2018) Roth, David M. “David Shrobe @ Jenkins Johnson.” Square Cylinder (October 10, 2018) 

2017

Frank, Priscilla. “Fourth Generation Harlem Artist Challenges What It Means To Be An American.”HUFFPOST Arts & Culture (February 21, 2017)

Rodney, Seph. “Mocking Materialism with Collage.” Hyperallergic (February 14, 2017) Sargent, Antwaun. “An Artist Transforms Debris into Sculptures

of Home and History.” The Creators Project (February 1, 2017) 

2016

Wright, Peter “Soulio”. “Up on Sugar Hill: Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling Looks to Neighborhood’s Black History.” HUFFPOST

Arts & Culture (February 29,2016) 

2011

Mays, Jeff. “Harlem Artist Beautifies Construction Side With Mural.” DNAinfo 

AWARDS/ RESIDENCIES

2017 Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York City

2016 Fountainhead Residency, Miami, Florida

2015-2016 Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling Artist-in-Residence, New York City

2014-2016 Artist Teaching Fellow at Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York City

2014 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship, Madison, Maine

2013 Kossak Travel Grant For Painters, Paris, France

LECTURES

2023 Open Air Virtual Artist Talk: David Shrobe in Conversation with Dexter Wimberly, Harvey B.
Gantt Center for African American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC

2023 Imagination, Materiality, and Narrative as Liberatory Modes of Intervention, Interseminars Public Artist Talk, Mellon Foundation -funded seminar, Humanities Research Institute, University 

of Illinois Urbana- Champaign

2021, Painting and Drawing Lecture series, Graduate Program in Fine Arts, California College of the Arts, Sanfrancisco, California
2017 Ivy League Around the Corner, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University Lenfest Center for the
Arts, New York, NY
2015 Distrust That Particular Flavor, Artist Talk, Bitforms Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Kossak Travel Grant Presentation, Hunter College MFA Building, New York, NY
Three, Artist Talk, RFA Gallery, New York, NY

PERMANENT PUBLIC COLLECTIONS 

The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Block Museum, Evanston, IL, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of

Oregon, Eugene, OR, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Washington State University, Pullman, WA, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Union College,

Schenectady NY, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC,  University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson,

AZ University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, IL, Pierce and Hill Harper Arts Foundation, Detroit, MI

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